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<\/picture><\/div>\nAt Varanasi Airport on Thursday, the pilot of IndiGo flight 6E 6544, bound for Mumbai, refused to operate the aircraft. The pilot cited ill health, following which the passengers became increasingly upset.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Passengers were informed that the pilot would not operate the aircraft even before boarding for the flight began. Following this, the passengers created a commotion in the terminal building and accused the airline management of not providing accurate information.<\/p>\n The passengers had completed security checks and were waiting for boarding in the security hold area. According to sources, the pilot’s scheduled duty hours had also been completed, after which IndiGo began arranging an alternative crew.<\/p>\n Passengers accuse airline management<\/strong><\/p>\n The passengers alleged that they were not given accurate information on time. With no clear information about the flight, the passengers began creating a commotion in the airport’s terminal building. The passengers alleged that the flight was cancelled just when they were supposed to depart, and that no clarity had been provided about the situation yet.<\/p>\n According to sources, the concerned pilot had completed the scheduled duty hours. It is also being reported that following protests from the passengers, IndiGo management has begun arranging an alternative crew so that the flight can depart from Varanasi for Mumbai.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At Varanasi Airport on Thursday, the pilot of IndiGo flight 6E 6544, bound for Mumbai, refused to operate the aircraft. The pilot cited ill health, following which the passengers became increasingly upset. Passengers were informed that the pilot would not operate the aircraft even before boarding for the flight began. Following this, the passengers created…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34303,28255,30535,27504,34301,34304,34302,28760],"class_list":["post-36819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-airport-ruckus","tag-flight-delay","tag-indigo-airlines","tag-indigo-flight","tag-mumbai-flight","tag-passenger-commotion","tag-pilot-refuses-to-fly","tag-varanasi-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}